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Luo Binghe sits on a chair across from her, reclining in the way he is accustomed—as though the room, the mansion, and everything surrounding it belongs to him. "This place is not as it seems. It is perhaps the greatest challenge I have faced. Its physical dangers are minimal, but it challenges my heart and mind, confronting me with truths long hidden. I find myself changed in unexpected ways." He wants to say I am in love, but Mingyan will not take that as anything new. She likely already assumes he's found a new wife—or more than one, given how long he's been here. She has been witness to a number of his passing infatuations before, and tolerated his enthusiastic accounts of their virtues; it won't be easy to explain how this is different.